Keppoch song

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and exile, and the curses and execrations
then tented upon the king, his advisers — the
ministry, and their merciless agents, and pre-
tending superiors, the duke of Gordon and
Macintosh, the valued amount of the plun-
der of the property, and the gracious ces-
sion of the third part to Macintosh, by the
duke, to stop his mouth from telling tales,
as to the legality of the duke's pretensions
to superiority, the demolition of every thing
upon the property, tending to show the
quondam existence of the old family, with
the destruction of the parish records and
registers, in case a ray of mercy should af-
terwards be dispensed by royalty ; and con-
cluding, with a continuance of those impre-
cations, by the miserable victims and exiles
down to the present day? Such an in-
scription may gratify the malicious and the
partizans of corruption, but must chili the
breast of the humane and the just with
horror. If it be asked why was this sig-
nal calamity inflicted, it may be replied,
for having been decoyed into a sham re-
bellion, and which cannot be called a re-
bellious act of treason, in the proper mean-